Alright i have a dell 4550 series comp. I have a 40gb and a 80 gb harddrive. i have 1 gb ddr sdram right now. I have a radeon 256 mb video card right now. I was running fable and warcraft 3 and counter strike. Now i have uninstalled them and installed world of warcraft. Now it like lags. My whole computer lags. Anything i am doing on my computer it lags. It is not a normal lag though it is kind of a skip on a cd. It will run fine and then it will stop and a few seconds later it will start going fine again. I have ran world of warcraft on my computer before with counterstrike and warcraft 3 and this problem did not occur. I do not konw what is wrong i do not want to go out and spend 100 dollars if i do not have too. COuld this be the harddrive?? I have used disk cleanup on a daily basis. I defragment at least 3 times a month. I use spysweeper. And i cant find anything else wrong. i have great connection to internet. Im not sure but i think ram is the problem. How do i cool the computer?
2007-12-03 08:34:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You certainly have enough RAM and a good enough video card for WOW, so the likely culprit is your hard drive. You didn't indicate which drive is your C: drive, whether WOW is installed on the C: drive, or how full either drive is. If your C: drive has less than 10% free disk space, this could definitely be the cause of the problem, as Windows and your game would not have much virtual memory space available, and adding RAM would not fix the problem. If space is not an issue, then you could have a faulty hard drive.
2007-12-03 08:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Spartacus! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
O.ok. right here is what you do get the main suitable video card you have got sufficient money, this is greater significant in gaming than RAM yet bypass forward and up your ram to 2GB using fact it is going to help yet no longer everywhere close to as much as a GeForce 7800GS with 256MB of RAM will. do no longer waste you cash on a 5000 sequence video card get a GeForce 6800GS with 256Mb of RAM minimum i could advise, the 5200 or 5500 won't run the maximum modern video games nicely worth a darn.
2016-09-30 12:59:58 · answer #2 · answered by lacie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More ram would not fix the problem, it appears that is software related. Try a system restore to a time prior to installing the games. Also check on the taskmanager whats is eating resources. If that does not help, try a program ccleaner (the C stand for crap) and make a disck cleanup and a registry fix.
2007-12-03 08:39:12 · answer #3 · answered by Leonel C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 GB is the max memory that system can handle.
2007-12-03 08:42:55 · answer #4 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't I just answer this question? Don't ask more than once. We don't need any more spam ...
2007-12-03 08:39:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋